Evaluators can
select the tests they
want to assess the abilities they are interested for a particular
student.
They must give all the test necessary to obtain a cluster scores.

WJ-III can not be
hand-scored, computer-scoring only. The The scoring software
calculates
scores using variables, such as time limits, test sections,
age-equivalents,
grade equivalents, and delay times, that can not be built into the
printed score
tables.

Long-Term Retrieval (Glr) [note - "long-term" can
be as short as several minutes]

2. Visual-Auditory Learning. The student is taught rebus symbols for
words and tries to "read" sentences written with the symbols.
12. Retrieval Fluency. The student tries to name as many things as
possible in one minute in each of three specified categories, e.g.,
fruits.

Visual Processing (Gv)
3. Spatial Relations. The student tries to select by sight alone, from
many choices, the fragments that could be assembled into a given
geometric shape.
13. Picture Recognition. The student is shown one or more pictures and
then tries to identify it or them on another page that includes several
similar pictures

5. Concept Formation. For each item, the student tries to figure out
the rule that divides a set of symbols into two groups.
15. Analysis-Synthesis. The student tries to solve logical puzzles
involving color codes similar to mathematical and scientific symbolic
rules.

Processing Speed (Gs)
6. Visual Matching. As quickly as possible for three minutes, the
student circles two identical numbers in each row of six numbers.
16. Decision Speed. As quickly as possible for three minutes, the
student tries to find the two pictures in each row that are most
similar conceptually (e.g., sundial and stopwatch).

Short-Term Memory (Gsm)

7. Numbers Reversed. Repeating increasingly long series of dictated
digits in reversed order.
17. Memory for Words. The student tries to repeat dictated random
series of words in order.

Additional Tests
8. Incomplete Words. The student attempts to recognize words dictated
with some sounds omitted. Ga.
9. Auditory Working Memory. The student tries to repeat randomly
dictated words and numbers (e.g., cow 9 up 3 5) with the words first
and then the numbers in the order they were dictated. This test also
measures Gsm or working memory or division of attention.
10. Visual-Auditory Learning – Delayed. The student tries again to
"read" sentences written with the rebuses learned in Visual-Auditory
Learning. There are norms from one half-hour to 8 days. This is an
additional measure of Glr.
18. Rapid Picture Naming. The student tries to name simple pictures as
quickly as possible for 2 minutes. This test measures Gs and naming
facility or Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN)
19. Planning. The student tries to trace a complex, overlapping path
without lifting the pencil, retracing any part of the path, or skipping
any part. Gf and Gv are involved in this test.
20. Pair Cancellation. The student tries scans rows of pictures and
tries, as quickly as possible for 3 minutes to circle each instance in
which a certain picture is followed by a certain other picture (e.g.,
each cat followed by a tree). This test also measures Gs.